Non-Prophet Cartoons: Islam vs. The West
In the Name of Allah vs. In the Name of Liberty
The West--specifically, the European West--stands aghast at
Islam's violent reaction to its comedic caricature of the
Prophet and ponders: Shall we who enshrine our sacred rights to
human expression suffer these cultural indignities and blatant
intimidations designed to ultimately extinguish "our rights?"
This is outrageous and morally repugnant to cower before a
medieval culture that treats women, religious minorities and all
things "civilized" with intolerance. Alas! Let us speak out in
vehement solidarity against this "Scourge of Green" which seeks
to smother some 500-years of Enlightenment!
Reaction to the West's Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment,
and social revolutions which gave birth to Democracy-Capitalism,
Socialism and even Communism--yea, to the "absolute profane" of
SECULARISM, where the triumph of the individual and of the
"rights of man" are worshipped with such unwavering
adulation--have now collided with Islam's sacred honor in a
crescendo of religio-philosophical disparity that not only
refuses to go away, but is exploited by both the Axis of Evil
(Syria and Iran), as well as welcomed (by Bush and the Neo-con all-out
war throng).
As implacable a foe as the New World's citadel of American
Christian fundamentalism is to Islam, even so, is the "Religion
of Secular-Humanism" found in Western Europe as much, or more,
an enemy to Islam. Indeed, the "righteous indignation" found
throughout the Western European media in response to the
desecration of her embassies and trade throughout the Islamic
World, because of these cartoons, goes beyond a wakeup call for
European secularism.
What could not be understood by the effete secularists of
Western Europe--viz. the absolutism and moralisms of American
rhetoric following 9/11 ("This crusade, this war on terrorism is
gonna take awhile." - "We're going to find those who -- those
evil-doers, those barbaric people . . ." The White House,
September, 2001), can certainly be understood by those same
European secularists when couched in terms of Islamic
fundamentalism designed to inflict maximum damage to their
sacred freedoms. The Europeans have no intention of allowing
Islamic radicalism to infringe upon their liberties--liberties
for which they have so valiantly fought for (though beclouded
from time to time) throughout the past 500 years!
What once was America's War on Terror is fast becoming Europe's
War on Cultural Intolerance. It is one thing for Bush to
announce democracy's extension into the Middle East as an
expression of Western ideals--freedom, liberty, tolerance,
ad nausea, ad infinitum--as a guise to buttress
cheap oil prices and to further addict the world to the
petrol-DOLLAR . . . it is quite another thing for Europe to
rally its indifference, mediocrity and effete cultural pride to
assail the Islamic hoards who, like the barbarians vs. the Roman
Empire, now threaten to bring Europe to its effeminate knees and
end her much-vaunted openness and age of tolerance!
Islam, though it knows not, is awakening the Crusader Demons of
yesteryear--the Knights Templar of the European media have
arisen to confront the Prince of Persia who, as the new Saladin,
leads the charge against the infidels and the hated Jew who
occupies the Sacred Lands of Islam.
What an ironic twist that Europe could find philosophical
kinship, rivaling religious zeal, with America's
Christian fundamentalists who support the War on Terror--a
war that most Europeans despise with unmitigated distain. But
now--that which they feared the most has come upon them: Now we
see what the Americans are fighting (sort of)! The Europeans
find themselves--grant it, from a most unlikely position--allied
with Bush's War on Terror because Terror in another form has
wafted upon their secular shores.
Could it be that the enemy of my enemy really is my friend?
Well, if that enemy continues to assail what you deem
incontrovertible rights each time you seek to assert them, then
in all likelihood, the "enemy across the pond" will slowly
become your friend--since Bush's enemy is already the enemy of
what's becoming your enemy!
Meanwhile, the Saudis et al can recall and even shut down their
embassies and renounce all trade from these blasphemous European
capitals which cannot control their unbridled presses--all in
the name of Allah! But, according to the Chief Imam of Mecca, the Danes
are beyond repentance--suffer their dastardly deed to be met
with trial and final judgment (no doubt some form of Islamic
fatwa that damns the Danes to the perpetual fires of hell--here
on earth and elsewhere).
The Danes--who clearly express overall European sentiment--will
not cave to Islam's disgrace, to wit:
"The jab at the Danish government and public was in reaction to
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's decision not to
intervene in the affair, on the grounds of freedom of
expression. An opinion poll also showed that 79 per cent of
Danes thought Rasmussen should not issue an apology, and 62 per
cent said the newspaper should not apologize." (Al Aram, Issue 780)
The greater the reaction wrought by Islam--especially from the
isolated likes of Syria and Iran or the disenfranchised of Fatah
amongst of Palestinians--the more the Knights Templar broadcast
their outrage throughout the capitals of European enlightenment.
Sure, the ever-effluent progressive types who adhere to the
religion of cultural progressivism plead their case for
immediate and future tolerance--let us acquiesce to the demands
of the religiously intolerant to unite in fighting against
Bush's unjustified War on Terror--but is anyone in Europe now
listening? I don't surmise such is the case.
Yet, as the subways of Europe are blasted to smithereens; as
thousands of cars in France and elsewhere in Europe are torched
by Moslem malcontents; and as Europeans brace themselves for the
unending CONFLICT OF CIVILIZATION in their own backyard--war is
now being waged upon their sacred cows of liberty, fraternity,
and equality--all fence sitting with the Americans and their War
on Terror appears doomed. . . awful thought: My enemy is my
friend!
A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL!
The world awaits the secularists of European Enlightenment and
the Crusaders of American Christian fundamentalism to
embrace--at last, reason for martial bliss has been discovered.
Imagine "harmony and perfect love" between the absurdities of
nihilism, permissiveness, licentiousness, agnosticism, atheism,
and secular humanism AND the righteous indignations of
militarism, economic globalism, and the Church's religious
apostasy in America (led, in the main, by the politicization of
the Evangelical and Catholic Churches) . . . caught walking hand
in hand down the aisle of matrimonial concupiscence; indeed,
what an oxymoronic witness have we here? And yet--the vows
commence!
Oh, and think not that Condi Rice's remarks relative to blaming
Iran and Syria for permitting such violent reaction to Europe's
comedic desecrations went unnoticed and unappreciated by the
Europeans. Also note with whom her chiding remarks were made:
Israel's Foreign Minister. Both (and, again, think not the
Moslem world did not notice these TWO WOMEN) condemned Iran and
Syria for exploiting their people in allowing them to attack the
embassies of Western European nations; and in capitals
throughout the Islamic world to decry as blasphemy the
complicities of press and state in European society. What better
way to express the West's indignation to the complicity of both
Iran and Syria than to have two women--one a Jewess and the
other a Black American--renounce Islam's outrage!!!
"But yes, there are governments that have also used this
opportunity to incite violence. I don't have any doubt that
given the control of the Syrian Government in Syria, given the
control of the Iranian Government, which, by the way, hasn't
even hidden its hand in this, that Iran and Syria have gone out
of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own
purposes. And the world ought to call them on it. All
responsible people ought to say that there is no excuse for
violence. We all need to respect each other's religions. We need
to respect freedom of the press." (Feb. 7, 2006, Transcript of
Remarks by US Condoleezza Rice, Israeli FM Tzipi Livni at
Press Conference, Palestine Media Center)
Listen, neither I nor anyone else around these parts, needs to
enflame the passions of Islam relative to these goings on. To
think that the Bush Administration somehow orchestrated this
whole business by planting these cartoons and their publication
and announcements before the Islamic world borders on
intellectual insanity--the Bushies may be clever, but the Left
is utterly insane to countenance such conspiracy. On the other
hand--nothing like an unintended positive consequence from a
rather bizarre set of circumstances that can be totally
manipulated for effect by those who despise the Axis of Evil.
DOOM'S DAY SCENARIO & THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN LEFT!
A foregone geopolitical conclusion can be achieved once the dots
are connected--and what dots might they be? March 28, 2006--the
date of Israeli elections and the simultaneous attempt by Iran
to dump the US Dollar as the world's singular exchange for oil.
Saddam tried to do that back in 2000 and America invaded.
Now, the Totalitarian of Teheran (President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad),
who not only denies the Jewish Holocaust, but counters the
West's desecration of the Prophet's image by establishing his
own international cartoon competition to poke fun at that same
genocide, alienates the Islamic forces arrayed against their
Western foes. This is the same "caricature" who today pronounced
the Holocaust a "fairy tale."
"'We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago
(i.e., Israel) and if they do not listen to our recommendations,
then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do
this for them," Ahmadinejad said in a ceremony marking the 27th
anniversary of the Islamic revolution. 'Do the removal of Israel
before it is too late and save yourself from the fury of
regional nations,' the ultra-conservative president said. He
once again called the Holocaust a 'fairy tale' and said
Europeans have become hostages of 'Zionists' in Israel...." (Jihad Watch, Feb. 11, 2006).
Is it any wonder that some of the most vociferous outbursts
against the Danish cartoons and against the embassies of Europe
have come from Iran and Syria--who jolly well know that America
and her Coalition of the Willing or Unwilling are about to
pounce upon them with a furious assault that will make "Shock
and Awe" look like Little Bo Peep--speaking of fairy tales.
If you think for one moment that the "merchants of the Earth"
have any intention of allowing such an assault upon the almighty
dollar--then, you have bought my latest offer of Floridian
swampland and exchanged it for acreage somewhere near Katrina's
worst landfall in Louisiana!
Then there's the insipid American Left who--though blindly
well-intentioned--takes squirt-gun in hand against this raging
forest fire and spurts out:
"It now falls upon people of conscience to create and organize a
mass movement of nationwide non-violent resistance - in the
spirit of Dr. (Martin Luther) King and Mohandas K. Gandhi - that
will stop the war (in Iran this March) before it starts. At the
rate the White House rhetoric is beginning to boil, this
movement must start now and swing into full action by the early
days of March (2006). The only way to stop another senseless and
unnecessary war is with a mass movement rooted in a moral
strategy that brings people together. This movement must also
earn the sympathy and trust of those who are undecided about the
necessity of another Middle East war . . . without a moral and
unifying strategy that spells out specific non-violent tactics
to achieve our goal, the power elite and the corporate media
will ignore or marginalize our efforts. Remember the moral
claims for justice and the appeals to America's founding ideals
during the civil rights movement, and you'll understand the type
of strategy we need today." (Mike Kress, The Urgency of Now:
Stopping the War on Iran, Feb. 11, 2006, In
formation Clearing House . . . "News you Won't Find on CNN"
- and I can see why---my profundity).
Mike, just as you were about to launch Operation Peashooter, a
marriage made in hell just came off, and it's all over but the
shoutin'. Let me disabuse you and the marginalized American
Left--let alone the conflicted European Left--there's this huge
Green Monster that's coming at you and another one painted red,
white and blue. Both could care less about Messrs. King and
Gandhi. You and the defiance of the Chinese man who stood before
the tank in Tiananmen Square have a great deal in
common--neither has a sense of size!
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